Baby Blogs

It’s good to find another story about blogs in the New York Times, even if it does quote someone as saying that baby blogs are “narcissism in its most obscene flowering.” Read the Jan. 30 story ”Mommy (and Me)“ (registration required).

Daniel J. Siegel, a psychiatrist on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development at the University of California, Los Angeles, and co-author of “Parenting From the Inside Out,” said that what is being expressed in these Web sites “is the deep, evolutionarily acquired desire to rise above invisibility, something parents experience all the time.” He explained, “You want to be seen not just by the baby whose diaper you’re changing, but by the world.”

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Posted by Susannah Gardner on 01/29 at 10:22 PM • Blogging News

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  1. The blog is just the latest thing, Remember when video cameras first came out. Parents filmed every mundane thing their child did than forced people to watch the tapes. At least with the blogs they just give you the url, then you can view it or not.

    Posted by Jim  on  10/10  at  09:13 PM

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